Hawaii · Nonprofit
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $668,890 to it, the largest being THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ($187,575). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $669k
- Net assets
- $18M
What National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii Inc does
Mission
The mission of the national kidney foundation of hawai'I (nkfh) is to prevent kidney and urinary tract disease, improve the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by this disease, and increase the availability of all organs for transplantation in hawai'I.nkfh carries out its mission by providing services for patients with kidney disease, educational materials for patients and the general public about kidney disease and related chronic diseases, advocating for access to high quality health care, and providing information about organ and tissue donation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public health education and community service - all residents are welcome to visit our website at www.kidneyhi.org to learn about kidney disease and the wide array of programs and services available, including presentations, screenings, self-management education, cookbooks, youth programs, patient support groups and clinical services such as care management nutrition counseling and social services. Programs are interactive and encourage healthy lifestyle choices.promoting awareness of kidney disease to enhance lives through education through our participation in health fair, community events, company wellness programs and presentations.
$1,411,752 spent$8,460 earned by the program98% of program spendingPatient services - nkfh provides direct services to thousands of individuals each year, especially those with kidney failure. We serve patients on dialysis or with a transplant and their families and caregivers. Nkfh is a major advocacy champion for patients and has established councils and support groups as a forum for their interaction. Nkfh also provides patients with much needed funds for emergency needs, medical id jewelry and handbooks. Nkfh will match up patient mentors with those newly diagnosed, to enhance their quality of life. Our most significant effort is to prevent kidney disease and its progression in the first place.
$35,419 spent2% of program spendingResearch - initiative to focus on tracking the outcomes and impact of our services and building a chronic kidney disease registry to improve health outcomes and transform chronic disease management in hawaii in order to effectively respond to chronic disease by population-based reporting the chronic disease burden (surveillance). The results will provide information that will decrease healthcare costs and improve outcomes through increased early identification, multidisciplinary interventions, evidence-based education for patients and healthcare professions and scientific research.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,447,171.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $24M (+106%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 65% · 2018 20% · 2019 1% · 2020 37% · 2022 0% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Aileen Utterdyke
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $91k → $50k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $378k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kidney Friends Hawaii Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
80% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 43% · 2019 52% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 39% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
41% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC?
- NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $668,890 to it, the largest being THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ($187,575). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $668,890 in grants to NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC?
- THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $187,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing